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Google's $12B Chip Strategy and Anthropic Issues

aired Aug 19, 2026 · 19.0m
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Summary

Today on the podcast, Anthropics' Claude Watermark was broken within four hours of it launching, which is hilarious for a lot of reasons. Calendly has some interesting features that they think make this unique.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, know, going, including: Amazon has dropped the $19.99 fee for Alexa Plus, and Calendly is launching an AI note-taker.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Let's talk about what's going on with Anthropic right now, because there's a whole bunch of kind of changes that they were making, not just with the text model, but with basically
  2. 02The EU AI Act basically mandates this watermarking for new models, and all this has to happen by August
  3. 03So the deadline came and they had to have everything done by the end of the month and all of the existing models that currently exist
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